1. I'm sorry you feel that way, but you're gonna have to back up that claim. We ban people for breaking the rules. We try as hard as we can not to ban someone, for obvious reasons.
2. That's the way of 99% of big discord servers. Most regular discord users have 10+ servers they're on, and they're gonna care about some more than others.
3. We have a lot of channels, yes. We try to have a good reason for most and I've always been an advocate of reducing the excess channels. We have quite a few off topic channels now, but they're for specific event related things. As for the having to move between channels, We just ask you not talk about things that have nothing to do with the game in the general channel. It keeps the fluff out and allows people who actually want to talk about the game to do it.
4. Again, this is not true. We warn, generally multiple times before muting. Moderators can't mute unless you're pretty new to the server, that's to prevent spam bots.
5. Forums have a much worse 'flow' compared to Discord, on top of being more 'formal'. Not that the formal is a bad thing, but when you want dev communication in a non technical way, AND you want them to do the rest of their job on time? It's just not feasible for them to do so. They can't see everything like they can on the discord, it's a much smoother environment, more laid back, and it allows them to release information in a less technical fashion much faster.
5.1: The steam forums and these forums get quite a bit of low quality, spammy posts too, but due to the nature of web chats, discord attracts a ton more spam, and it's much easier to be active on, thus we HAVE to moderate more. Please, next time you feel we're being Nazi's, let me know, and we can re-evaluate the situation. It's entirely possible for Moderators to get blinders and not see everything. If nobody says anything, how can we know?
Saying all that, I agree that the forums should be used more by them. But you can't expect to get anywhere near what you can in an open conversation with them.

Can you elaborate on what you disagree with? His complaints were that the devs don't communicate enough, and I told him he isn't looking for it. He expects everything to just... appear in front of him.
We have a very comprehensive view of how everything is going, because the devs DO constantly talk to the players.

Jesus where do I begin..
1. Would you rather them work on the game, or go too in depth about every. single. change. Realistically you don't need to know everything, and they have better stuff to do
2. The game is in alpha, and they determined that's the way they want the progression to go. It was too easy before. That's how alpha games work
3. The devs make vlogs, do interviews, tweet back at people, and they're nearly always hanging out in the Discord. It's not that they don't communicate. You don't look for communication.
4. They've said many times when we'll get our hands on T2.0. We knew it was gonna be at PAX, and we knew it wasn't going to be in this update. Joe did 3? interviews AT PAX where he said that it won't be in this update. They've said many other times the same thing, again, especially in the Discord.
5. The devs are constantly talking on the Discord.
6. The Discord also has patch notes, twitch integration, twitter integration, YouTube integration, we make announcements anytime the devs are doing anything public. There's also a channel specifically for things they're leaking for the upcoming update.
Point is, you're that upset about the issue but don't even bother to look for the solution. Join the discord.

Unfortunately the devs are just too busy right now.
Here's a quote from Zabir:
"I know it can be frustrating to not have patch notes to track what we are updating, but our hair is on fire right now as we try to resolve the most egregious issues. It takes time and effort to properly track patch notes that we felt would be best put towards getting the fixes out. That being said, as things calm down over the next few days we'll certainly be keeping a log and submitting patch notes along with the patches."